008, video;

[sodisasterrific]

[The video clicks on to show RIkku sitting on a small bed up against a wall. Next to her is a burlap sack, her daggers, a tool box, and a pile of textbooks (history, English for Dummies, four volumes of Mechanical Engineers' Handbook, and others,) all of which have oil and grease stains on them. She has very little worldly possessions, as people

Comments

[likesweiners]

So now you're working two jobs?

[sodisasterrific]

Uh-huh! And I'm going to school, and playing soccer with Ken, and tutoring my little sister, and helping a girl learn how to fight, and... uhm...

Well, it's not like our job takes a whole lotta work! Eheheh.

[likesweiners]

You stay so busy I wonder if I'll ever get time to take you out...well, once I can afford to.

[sodisasterrific]

I'm allowed to go out at night now! So that's a whole bunch of free hours I have.

[likesweiners]

Good to remember.

[sodisasterrific]

You could always drop by the shop. Or come to class with me. I'm sure I wouldn't mind the help.

[likesweiners]

I'm only good with motorcycles, but I can see about getting the hand of other greasy things.

[sodisasterrific]

I was thinking more along the lines of helping me read all the stuff in history. It gets really confusing.

[likesweiners]

I'm no good at school - quit it when I was 14.

[sodisasterrific]

I've never been to a real school before, and I'm no good at reading English. It gets all confused in my head.

Why'd you quit?

[likesweiners]

It's...a long story.

[And one he doesn't really wanna talk about.]

What's that other language you keep switching to anyway?

[sodisasterrific]

[Then she won't ask about it for now.]

Al Bhed. It's the language of my people, and the one I grew up speaking. Right now I'm speaking Spiran, but you all call it English and it's written differently than anything I've ever seen before.

[likesweiners]

And Al Bhed sounds like nothing I've ever heard before.

[sodisasterrific]

I haven't met a single Al Bhed person in the three months I've been here. It's kinda hard being the only one of your species walking around.

[rideonmyharley]

Are you sure species is the right word? You look as human as I am.

[sodisasterrific]

[She laughs a little.]

But I'm not human, silly! Have you seen my eyes?